Traitor's Death

Central Press

The body of Dr Josef Pfitzner, the former deputy Mayor of Prague, after his public execution in Prague at the end of World War II. He was accused of 'trying to Germanise Prague' and swiftly convicted of treason.

The body of Dr Josef Pfitzner, the former deputy Mayor of Prague, after his public execution in Prague at the end of World War II. He was accused of 'trying to Germanise Prague' and swiftly convicted of treason.

James Braid

Topical Press Agency

75 year-old golfer James Braid (1870 - 1950). Braid, born in Earlsferry, Fife, won his first Open title in 1901 and went on to become the first of 'The Great Triumvirate' of Braid, Harry Vardon and J H Taylor to win 5 titles (1903, 1905-6, 1908 and 1910). Horace Hutchinson said that Braid had a 'drive with divine fury' and he pioneered the explosion shot from sandy bunkers.

75 year-old golfer James Braid (1870 - 1950). Braid, born in Earlsferry, Fife, won his first Open title in 1901 and went on to become the first of 'The Great Triumvirate' of Braid, Harry Vardon and J H Taylor to win 5 titles (1903, 1905-6, 1908 and 1910). Horace Hutchinson said that Braid had a 'drive with divine fury' and he pioneered the explosion shot from sandy bunkers.

Listening To The King

Fox Photos

British delegates to the United Nations conference in San Francisco listening to the VE-Day broadcast by King George VI of Great Britain, (left to right) Dingle Foot, the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Economic Warfare, Ellen Wilkinson, the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Home Security, Deputy Prime Minister Clement Attlee, Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, George Tomlinson, the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Labour and Florence Horsburgh, the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health. Both Attlee and Eden would subsequently become Prime Ministers of Great Britain, Attlee as Labour Prime Minister from 1945-1951 and Eden as a Conservative from 1955-1957.

British delegates to the United Nations conference in San Francisco listening to the VE-Day broadcast by King George VI of Great Britain, (left to right) Dingle Foot, the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Economic Warfare, Ellen Wilkinson, the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Home Security, Deputy Prime Minister Clement Attlee, Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, George Tomlinson, the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Labour and Florence Horsburgh, the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health. Both Attlee and Eden would subsequently become Prime Ministers of Great Britain, Attlee as Labour Prime Minister from 1945-1951 and Eden as a Conservative from 1955-1957.

Photographers Meet

Keystone

Keystone photographer Fred Ramage shakes hands with another British Official photographer Lieutenant William Vanderson of Fox Photos, who has been a prisoner of war at Oflag along with other British officers, after their liberation by the US 9th Army.

Keystone photographer Fred Ramage shakes hands with another British Official photographer Lieutenant William Vanderson of Fox Photos, who has been a prisoner of war at Oflag along with other British officers, after their liberation by the US 9th Army.

Horror Camp

Keystone

In the centre with hands on his hips, General Dwight D Eisenhower, Supreme Allied Commander looks at the piles of bodies belonging to Russian and Polish prisoners shot by the Germans in a camp at Ohrdruf, Germany.

In the centre with hands on his hips, General Dwight D Eisenhower, Supreme Allied Commander looks at the piles of bodies belonging to Russian and Polish prisoners shot by the Germans in a camp at Ohrdruf, Germany.